Mark advised former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in the joint policy initiative Breaking the Climate Deadlock (2008-2009), which produced a series of high-level reports outlining the economic and technological rationale for a global climate deal and its key components.
As elegantly outlined in the review, Sacks describes the history of the measurement of HbA1c, the process leading to standardization to DCCT/NGSP numbers, and the rationale for the global use of International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine IFCCC) standardization.
We explain our rationale for defining globalization with reference to the emergence of a global marketplace, and the economic and political choices that have facilitated that emergence.
But the inventiveness that converts cattle tissue into thousands and thousands of apparently nonagricultural products -- like gelatin capsules and jet engine lubricants -- also provides part of the economic rationale for expanding the global cattle herd, regardless of the consequences.
The very rationale for these born global international subsidiaries is to exploit the international market opportunities – both in terms of lowering costs as well as expanded revenues.
In this political mood, Byrne's rationale for a European global health approach would, on the one hand, protect European citizens from infectious diseases, while at the same time act as a driver for peace and stability worldwide (16).
This conclusion is consistent with the results of the Norway and Swiss cases in which self-interest was also the dominant rationale for investing in global health, i.e. to protect national and international security and their economic interests.
In 2007, The Prime Minister and Cabinet approved Donaldson's Health is Global: Proposals for a UK Government- wide Strategy discussion paper, which set out the rationale for a strategic framework for global health [[ 1] p. 15].
In discussing the rationale for the royalty, Chris Stephenson, general manager for global marketing in Microsoft's entertainment unit, said the company "needed people to rally behind" the new device and service.
Consistent with its previous rationale for the acquisition, Dell also believes that its global brand and broad global reach will dramatically accelerate 3PAR's revenue growth.
